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AP Government
Streets, Monster Vocab
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General Vocab
12th Grade
12/10/2015

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Term
Block Grants
Definition
Federal government funds money to states or local governments, in which they distribute them to service providers.
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Categorical grants
Definition
Grants issued by US Congress, which are spent on defined purposes
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Cooperative Federalism
Definition
(Marble Cake) Government that has mixed programs and authorities among the national, state and local government.
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Devolution
Definition
Transfer of power to National Government to states.
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Federalism
Definition
System of power where power is divided up into national and regional government
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Fiscal Federalism
Definition
"Understanding which functions and instruments are best centralized and which are the best place in the sphere of decentralized government" The sharing of revenues from tax between central government to states or local government
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Unfunded Mandate
Definition
a statue or regulation that requires a state or local government to provide certain action but no money in return for fulfilling the requirements
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